Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.